# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 515
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10281 "2013-08-14T22:10:17Z")
One’s a flaming inflated balloon of hot gas and the other one is a zeppelin, duh. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10282 "2013-08-14T22:17:54Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/13/rush-limbaugh-god-global-warming/](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/13/rush-limbaugh-god-global-warming/) > > Rush Limbaugh says that anyone who believed in God could not believe in man-made climate change. > [@Rush Limbaugh](#): > > If you believe in God, then intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming. You must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he cannot create. Somebody needs to advise Rush that that’s what humans **do.** We take the world as we find it, and we **change** it. Whether evolved or put in our nature by God, it is our biological specialty. Has been ever since our ancestors figured out that you can change the shape of a rock by banging it against another rock; that you can take those wolves following the camp for scraps and control their breeding and turn them into a thousand breeds of dog; that you don’t have to just look around for edible plants to gather, you can plant them, and then control their breeding so the edible parts grow bigger and tastier. We even change the **landscape,** and you don’t need high tech to do it. Europeans came to the New World and saw a wilderness untouched by the hand of man, but it wasn’t, really, you pretty much have to go to (pre-global-warming) Antarctica to find that. The Indians did not walk lightly on the land, they changed it – they had already made it something very different from what they found when they crossed the Bering Strait. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10283 "2013-08-15T00:32:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > … you don’t have to just look around for edible plants to gather, you can plant them, and then control their breeding so the edible parts grow bigger and tastier. … The Banana; Rush Limbaugh’s (and Ray Comfort’s) worst nightmare! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10284 "2013-08-15T02:14:21Z")
[http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/14/2467861/three-arizona-republicans-fema-hypocrisy/](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/14/2467861/three-arizona-republicans-fema-hypocrisy/) \*\*Three Republicans Who Opposed Sandy Relief Now Demand Disaster Aid For Arizona \*\* > [@](#): > > Arizona Republicans Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. John McCain, and Rep. Paul Gosar all voted against emergency relief funding after SuperStorm Sandy ravaged much of the New Jersey and New York area earlier this year. Now, following an Arizona wildfire, the same trio is vocally complaining that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is not doing enough to aid their state. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10285 "2013-08-15T02:53:08Z")
Republicans are hypocrites. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10286 "2013-08-15T02:55:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Republicans are hypocrites. Who knew? _waves hand in the air_ OOH! OOH! Mistah Kottah! OOH! ---
**Author:** ![Ograbme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ograbme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ograbme)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10287 "2013-08-15T04:34:54Z")
Herman Cain: the “middle class” is a liberal media hoax that keeps us from unlocking the power of The Secret > **[FAFA365 เว็บสล็อต ทรูวอเลท เว็บตรง ไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์ การันตีได้เงิน](https://www.caintv.com/)** > > การันตีการลงทุนกับเกมสล็อตของ FAFA365 ที่นี่รับประกันได้เลยว่าได้รับกำไรชัวร์ 100% แน่นอน ซึ่งเราคือผู้ให้บริการสล็อตเว็บตรงอันดับ 1 > [@](#): > > The “middle class” is really little more than a convenient benchmark that politicians and reporters use to suit their needs. There is no definable group of people that always stays within this mythical group we’ve come to refer to as the middle class. > > The closest you can get to a viable definition is more a feeling than anything else. People used to recognize middle class as a certain state of well-being. It was the idea that a family with a little money, but far from wealthy, could be reasonably happy and stable if they lived within their needs. When I was growing up, our family was definitely at the lower end of the income scale, but we didn’t feel like we were “lower class.” There was no bureaucrat or liberal journalist standing around telling us to think of ourselves as poor, so we didn’t… **If class is anything, it is a mindset. I’ve always had an upper class mindset because I knew what was in myself, and I didn’t limit myself to what it said on my paystub or on my bank statement.** ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10288 "2013-08-15T04:44:01Z")
So, Herman Cain thinks that we should simultaneously “live within our needs” and not limit ourselves to what it says on our bank statements? Sounds like solid advice to me. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10289 "2013-08-15T04:46:56Z")
How DARE those liberals try to determine the demographics of and needs of the poor in order to better serve their needs and try to help them out of poverty with social programs, that is TELLING THEM TO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS POOR AND LESS THAN DIRT unlike conservatives telling the poor how rugged and individual they are as they lead them to the wolves with dignity. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10290 "2013-08-15T10:07:12Z")
Turns out Conservatives were right to be suspicious of the First Lady’s activities… Once Barack completes his last term, don’tcha know Michelle’s [taking over](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/14/orson_scott_card_worries_about_obama_turning_urban_gangs_into_his_personal.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10291 "2013-08-15T13:25:14Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > Turns out Conservatives were right to be suspicious of the First Lady’s activities… > > Once Barack completes his last term, don’tcha know Michelle’s [taking over](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/14/orson_scott_card_worries_about_obama_turning_urban_gangs_into_his_personal.html)? I knew Orson Scott Card was a little nuts about gay marriage, but man, he’s deeper down the rabbit hole than I imagined: > [@](#): > > Where will he get his “national police”? The NaPo will be recruited from “young out-of-work urban men” and it will be hailed as a cure for the economic malaise of the inner cities. > In other words, Obama will put a thin veneer of training and military structure on urban gangs, and send them out to channel their violence against Obama’s enemies. > Instead of doing drive-by shootings in their own neighborhoods, these young thugs will do beatings and murders of people “trying to escape” – people who all seem to be leaders and members of groups that oppose Obama. Wow, that’s nuts. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10292 "2013-08-15T13:49:26Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I knew Orson Scott Card was a little nuts about gay marriage, but man, he’s deeper down the rabbit hole than I imagined:Wow, that’s nuts. You think THAT’S nuts, you should see the sheer volume of Mylanta that’s being downed at Lionsgate’s executive offices… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10293 "2013-08-15T23:37:21Z")
Well, since [he says](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/15/2471911/congressman-doesnt-believe-white-collar-crime-exists/) it would be perfectly legal to pound some sense into his head with a tire iron… > [@](#): > > There’s no such thing as financial crime, according to Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). > > At a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills, California on Tuesday, a constituent asked McClintock for his “stance on Wall Street criminal practices.” The congressman responded, “Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.” ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10294 "2013-08-15T23:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s no such thing as financial crime, according to Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). > > At a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills, California on Tuesday, a constituent asked McClintock for his “stance on Wall Street criminal practices.” The congressman responded, “Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.” Sounds like the shop lifter/ pick pocket lobbyist have got to him… ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10295 "2013-08-15T23:59:46Z")
I suppose Mr. McClintock now advocates the release from incarceration of all the men and women who were found guilty of possessing marijuana. I wonder how he feels about knife wielding rapists? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10296 "2013-08-16T02:24:33Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I wonder how he feels about knife wielding rapists? I should think he’d want to defer to Todd Aiken’s expertise on the topic of rape. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10297 "2013-08-16T04:34:27Z")
Of course guns don’t commit crime; people with guns commit crime. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10298 "2013-08-16T12:36:17Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I knew Orson Scott Card was a little nuts about gay marriage, but man, he’s deeper down the rabbit hole than I imagined: You left out the funniest part. > [@](#): > > Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator. He hates the very idea of compromise… ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10299 "2013-08-16T14:47:18Z")
Clearly he’s using the Republican definition of “compromise,” i.e. “I get what I want and you get bupkis.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10300 "2013-08-16T16:20:58Z")
[The Teabaggers are (at present) still Republicans, so:](http://onthecommons.org/magazine/tea-party-targets-public-libraries#) > [@](#): > > **The Tea Party Targets Public Libraries** > > In September 2012 the Library Board of Pulaski County, Kentucky raised property taxes $1 per year for a typical homeowner to maintain the existing level of services in its five libraries. Voters were not given the opportunity to reject the increase; in 2006 however, they were and resoundingly approved a much larger increase to finance a new library. > > But in 2006 the county and the country did not have a Tea Party. That grassroots movement sprang up early 2009 in fury at the federal government’s attempt to help millions of people facing foreclosure stay in their homes. In 2010 it escalated into a full-throated attack on the federal government’s attempt to expand medical care access to tens of millions. By 2012 the Tea Party movement’s virulent anti-government, anti-tax philosophy and take-no-prisoners, I’m-not-my-brother’s-keeper attitude had come to define American politics. > > Pulaski County Tea Partiers, justifying their fury by noting the $1 increase had not been voted on by the people began circulating a petition to dissolve the library tax district completely. The effort’s leader declared her group would stop accumulating signatures only if all members of the current library board resigned. > > The Board did not resign and ultimately the petitioners found they had too little time to gather the necessary signatures. But the Tea Party had demonstrated its strength and revealed its willingness to use scorched earth tactics. Keep reading, it gets even worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=514) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=516)